Violence Against Women Act Policy 
The first section covers the history of the policy and what lead up to it. Also what are some of the
social movements in history that made this policy possible. Should be fact based. Then present
the actual policy you are writing about, key points related to: problems, population involved, what
the benefit or service is the policy supposed to offer.
The second section is also fact/research based. Who else is affected by the policy such as
stakeholders. What special interest groups support or oppose the policy. What are the points of
view of the conservative and liberal groups…do they like or oppose the population affected or
you can write about how those political ideologies view the problem the policy is attempting to
address. Then the actual voting statistics and/or information about which political party
represented or wrote the policy and who co-sponsored.
Third section is more of your opinion. Based of the research, what do you feel are the strengths
and weaknesses. Does the policy work? Is the problem fix or have people intended to receive
benefits actually improve. Write about unintended consequences, what actually happened from
the policy that wasn’t expected, sho